Open AccessHealth Economics: Report on a WHO Inter-Regional Seminar. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1975. (Public Health Papers No. 64 ISBN 924 130064). Pp.44.
Author(s) -
Javed Iqbal
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v15i2pp.233-235
Subject(s) - health sector , public economics , political science , economics , economic growth , social science , sociology , health services , demography , population
The interest of the policy-maker in social sectors is of arecent origin. All aggregative production functions in the pastindicated the existence of a residual factor which was generally imputedto qualitative and quantitative advances in education and training.Other social factors like health were not given the attention theydeserved. It took a long time before the economic significance ofeducation could fee reflected in policy-making. Still worse is the caseof health sector, the study of which has not been seriously done byeconomic theorists.